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SIOS Technical Expert Wins “2007 Japan OSS Contributors Awards”

SteelEye is very pleased to announce that Yoshinori Sato  of our parent company, SIOS Technology, has won the "2007 Japan OSS Contributor's Awards"judged by the Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA).

The prize is awarded by the IPA every year to the top open source software (OSS) developer.

Yoshinori has been recognized for “His contributions to OSS, including the porting of Linux to CPUs targeted at embedded applications.”

Congratulations, Yoshinori.

I Want One of Those!

Our UK reseller, Open Minds, has published a great customer story on a LifeKeeper implementation at E-retailer, I Want One of Those.  From the story:

The LifeKeeper business continuity software has increased IT department productivity in general as well as safeguarding ERP server availability. Sagar explains that they operate in three modes: the production environment; a test environment and a QA mode: "We are continually developing the system. Now we can make a deployment to a live system during business hours if needed. We would have to have done this out of hours before. Now we don't have to worry so much. From October onwards we will have to stop development but we now have the means to deploy to the inactive node and test out system changes. It certainly helps us in the testing process."

Sagar is delighted with SteelEye LifeKeeper: "LifeKeeper has made life so much easier. Developing with Linux is hard at the best of times. LifeKeeper made it better. It's just absolutely brilliant and makes my team’s life easier."

Read the full story here.

Clustering or Virtual Machine Replication?

In his blog, Virtually Speaking, Dan Kusnetzky (The Virtual Man) writes a great review of whether it is better to "deploy a clustered solution, such as SteelEye’s LifeKeeper or encapsulate applications and use a virtual machine replication technology, such as VMware’s Vmotion, XenSource’s Xenmotion or Virtual Iron’s Virtual Iron, to accomplish something" similar. 

Dan's posting covers critical goals of such a deployment including higher performance, increased scalability, increased availability, increased agility, and everything else.   It's a read that I highly recommend.